Motherland and Other Stories
Motherland and Other Stories Wandeka Gayle's mostly young black women protagonists win our hearts as risk-taking, adventurous explorers of the white world, away from home, which at some point has…
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Motherland and Other Stories
Wandeka Gayle's mostly young black women protagonists win our hearts as risk-taking, adventurous explorers of the white world, away from home, which at some point has been Jamaica. What characterises these women is a readiness to encounter, an attempt to get to grips with the oddities and strangeness of the white world, and like Ayo, to engage with it, whilst being pretty sure They include Roxanne, who starts work in a care home in London and strikes up a rapport with a depressed old man who used to be a writer; Ayo, who heads to college in Louisiana and fights off the internalised voice of her godly, tambourine-beating aunt to begin an affair with an engaging, slightly older white man; there's Sophia, who comes to work in Georgia and struggles to know whether her inability to engage more deeply with other people is really about racism or, rather, a more personally embedded reluctance.
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